table of contents

  1.  1976 Prediction of the Mighty System
  2. 1976: The prize-winning Lawless prophecy
  3. 200 Words
  4. 2nd Letter from Ward 1
  5. 32 Answers
  6. 90 Minutes in New York
  7. A Brush with the Past
  8. A call from “Alma Mater”
  9. A Comatose Fridge, and Whatever’s Meant to Be
  10. A Coney Island of the Mind
  11. A Dummy’s prayer answered
  12. A Fig-Leaf for David
  13. A Glastonbury Romance
  14. A Graceful Retreat
  15. A Letter from Vincent
  16. A magical place
  17. A Modest School Reunion
  18. A Sort of Philosophy
  19. A stroll around the neighbourhood
  20. A Trip Back
  21. A Tumbling Profusion
  22. A Very English View
  23. A Way with Words
  24. Aboriginal Tirade
  25. About the Magdalene
  26. Abstract Thinking vs Sensuous Living
  27. Abundance
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. Adaptation
  30. Adapting
  31. Affinity
  32. After Rain
  33. A Graceful Retreat
  34. Akin
  35. All Actual Life is Encounter
  36. All Religion is Magic!
  37. All we ever need to know
  38. Alley Creatures
  39. Altering the Past
  40. Amazing Predictions
  41. An Air for Cello and Soprano
  42. An Exercise in Unknowing
  43. An Old Book Revisited
  44. An old Cockney song
  45. An Open Letter to the Person Complaining
  46. An Outsider’s Perspective
  47. Anam Ċara
  48. and a Kitchen Sink, too
  49. Angel Story
  50. Angelic Brightness
  51. Angelic Message?
  52. Angelic Omens
  53. Angels
  54. Angels and Grace
  55. Angels and Us
  56. Angels, Chaos, Truth
  57. Angels Disguised as Bandits
  58. Angst and Angels
  59. Animal
  60. Annie Dillard
  61. Ant vs Sluggard
  62. Archaeologist
  63. Art as Generosity
  64. Art is more than Life
  65. Art, not Nature
  66. As a Novice
  67. At Mrs Jenkins’
  68. At Sixteen
  69. At the Blue Note Café
  70. At the Moot Spot
  71. Attitude
  72. Attracted
  73. Bach and Blackbird
  74. Back Home from Hospital
  75. Back Home in Blighty
  76. Back in the Rain
  77. Back streets, oily hands
  78. Back to Slough
  79. Baggage
  80. Beggars and Brexiteers
  81. Being a nobody
  82. Being Ordinary
  83. Being ready
  84. Beliefs 1: Pursue your Dreams
  85. Belonging
  86. Bible-reading Martyrs
  87. Bicycle
  88. Binding a Joy
  89. Black Books
  90. Blackberry Jam
  91. Blazing a Trail
  92. Bledlow Ridge
  93. Bless My Soul
  94. Blessed by the Sun
  95. Blessed Life
  96. Blessedness
  97. Blessings for All
  98. Blissful
  99. blog, blag, brag
  100. Blue Sea
  101. Blurbs
  102. Body Consciousness
  103. Bonfire of the Vanities
  104. Breadcrumbs . . . . . .
  105. Breakfast Rant
  106. Breaking Wild
  107. Brexit Dream 1
  108. Brexit Dream 2
  109. Brexit Dream 3
  110. Brochure Design
  111. Brother Sun, Sister Moon
  112. Brussels
  113. Burgess and Lawrence—with Time for a Tiger
  114. Bus Ride
  115. Bus Station
  116. BWV 140, a Church Cantata of J.S. Bach
  117. By Bus and Canal
  118. By their fruits
  119. Cancer, I Love You
  120. Capturing the Moment
  121. Carbon Footprint
  122. Caterpillar
  123. Cause of Insanity
  124. Champion of the Ordinary
  125. Cherishing the Past
  126. Cherry Tree
  127. Christina in a Bookshop
  128. Christmas 1944
  129. Christmas Past
  130. Civilization or Madness
  131. Classical Music of Africa
  132. Climb the lowest mountain
  133. Clothesline
  134. Clouds and simple things
  135. Community
  136. Compassion
  137. Confession
  138. Constant
  139. Cool for Cats
  140. Cool Vibrations, Good Migration
  141. Cornfields near Amersham Old Town
  142. Country Walk
  143. Cowes Horizons
  144. Creation Myth
  145. Cretinocracy
  146. Crime and Punishment
  147. Dark Star
  148. David’s Fig-Leaf
  149. Dawn Song
  150. Dawn Today
  151. Death before Dishonour
  152. Death Row
  153. Death will Win
  154. Delicious, not Precious
  155. Depth
  156. Digging in the Woods
  157. Diogenes and Alexander
  158. Discussion on Education
  159. Distinguish what’s Real
  160. Divine Economy?
  161. Do Fish have Souls?
  162. Do I have an Immortal Soul?
  163. Don’t try this at Home
  164. Dr Johnson and Blockheads
  165. Dream Lesson
  166. Dreams
  167. Dress Code
  168. Driving Again
  169. Duckling traffic
  170. Ducks and Drakes
  171. Eagle Flew Out of the Night
  172. Early Childhood
  173. Easter Reverie
  174. Ecstasy and Unreason
  175. Elemental
  176. Eleventh Child
  177. Ellie Clayton on William Blake
  178. Encounter in a Landscape
  179. Encounters on the Phoenix Trail
  180. Engineering and Angels
  181. England Have My Bones
  182. England in Spring
  183. England’s Green and Pleasant Land
  184. English Literature’s First Terrorist
  185. English pancakes
  186. Enhancing the Sky
  187. Enough of Priesthoods
  188. Enthousiasmos
  189. Eros, Agape and In-Godding
  190. Escaping from a Festival
  191. Escaping one’s Enemy
  192. Eternity in the City
  193. Evangelist
  194. Everything Desires
  195. Everything Knows
  196. Evolution
  197. Existence of God
  198. Eye-Witness
  199. Face to Face
  200. Fantasies
  201. Fernando Pessoa
  202. Fevered Interlude
  203. Fields of Blood
  204. Figures in a Landscape, updated
  205. Film Noir
  206. Finding Companionship in Reading
  207. Finding my Way in the Void
  208. Flat-bottomed Clouds
  209. Flight and Pursuit
  210. Flowers of Grass
  211. Fog on the Solent
  212. Following the scent
  213. forgiving
  214. Four-leaf Clover
  215. Fragile
  216. Free as a Bird
  217. Friendly Black Sheep
  218. From a Nest of Terrorists
  219. From a Thief
  220. From an Old Notebook
  221. From Etty, to God
  222. From Handwriting to Eternity
  223. From Jamaica
  224. From Journal to Book?
  225. From the Gone Past
  226. From the Land of Serendip
  227. Full Circle
  228. Fuller just got Emptier
  229. Gaia Warriors
  230. Generous
  231. George Santayana
  232. Gerrards Cross
  233. Gerrards Cross and the Wayfarer
  234. Getting Things Done
  235. Ghetu Files a New Story
  236. Girl with a Pearl Earring
  237. Gladness
  238. Glimpsing Eternity
  239. God and the Laws of Physics
  240. God is an Anarchist
  241. God is silent: Angels are here
  242. God, Love, Marriage, Sex
  243. Good and Bad
  244. Good Vibrations
  245. Grace and dignity
  246. Graffiti
  247. Grasping the Sky
  248. Gravity and Grace, by Simone Weil
  249. Greater than the Sum of its Parts
  250. Greenhayes Across the Years
  251. Guided Randomness
  252. Hannah Arendt on Action
  253. Happenstance
  254. Happiness Machine
  255. Hasty Sketch Map
  256. He was a very Parfit Gentil Knight
  257. Head and body
  258. Healing
  259. Heaven-Haven
  260. Hell! said the Duchess
  261. Here I am
  262. Here I’ll stay
  263. Here in October
  264. High Wycombe has a Monopoly
  265. Hildegard of Bingen
  266. Hitching to Heaven
  267. Hole in the Head
  268. Holiday Job
  269. Holy Family
  270. Home journal
  271. Homer’s Odyssey
  272. Hope
  273. Hornet’s Nest
  274. Housewifery
  275. How Everything Fits Together
  276. How Religions Began…
  277. How to Quell Terrorists
  278. How we got here, where we go next
  279. Human Animal
  280. humble
  281. Hurried Post
  282. Hymn of the Cherubim
  283. I am an Animal
  284. I am not a Machine
  285. I Leap Over the Wall
  286. if a white feather falls in front of you…
  287. If I burn to death, they’ll be sorry
  288. If I had stayed in Cowes
  289. Image and Ecstasy
  290. Improvisation
  291. In a Dark and Secret Wood
  292. In Memoriam for a lost friend
  293. In Memory of George Whitman, 1913-2011
  294. in praise of Inchoate Reality
  295. In the Bleak Midwinter
  296. In the Days of Low Sun
  297. In the Industrial Valley
  298. In the Mirror
  299. In the thistle-field, at dawn
  300. Indoor Travel
  301. Infinite are the Depths
  302. Inner and Outer Landscape
  303. Inside Out
  304. Intelligent Design
  305. Intimations of Immortality
  306. Intrepid Victorians
  307. Intrepid Victorians (2)
  308. Intrinsic Goodness
  309. Invisibles
  310. Invitation to a close encounter
  311. Is it Just Evolution?
  312. Is Soul poured into Flesh?
  313. It
  314. Jamaica, April 2018
  315. Jamaican Album
  316. James Lovelock: transcript of radio interview
  317. John o’Saturn Meets Women from Earth
  318. Jordan Peterson and Susan Blackmore
  319. Jotted Psalm
  320. Joy without a Cause
  321. Joyful Expressions?
  322. Jua Kali
  323. Just Like That
  324. Just Pix
  325. Kant’s Trick
  326. Kindness, Audio Podcast
  327. King James I School
  328. Knocking on Heaven’s Door
  329. Knowledge of Angels
  330. La Vie en Rosé
  331. Lambs and Us
  332. Last Temptation
  333. Latin Class
  334. Learning How to Live
  335. Leaving Space on the Stage
  336. Lehman Brothers Bites the Dust
  337. Let Spring be my Muse
  338. Letters to the Universe
  339. Liberation
  340. Life and Art
  341. Life’s Predicament
  342. Life Story Part 1 
  343. Life Story Part 2
  344. Life-Illusion
  345. Like a Letter … (2)
  346. Like a letter with my address on it
  347. Like an Artist’s Brush
  348. Like Slingblade
  349. Like Water
  350. Like Wildfire
  351. Liking and Disliking
  352. Lion and Thorn
  353. Lisbon
  354. Literature’s Miraculous God-child
  355. Litter
  356. Live by the Pen, Die by the Pen
  357. Living an Ordinary Life
  358. Living in a Body
  359. Living in High Wycombe
  360. Loitering
  361. Love Affairs
  362. Love to All
  363. Lucid Waking
  364. Luck & Angelic Messengers
  365. Lust for Life
  366. Magic of Day and Night
  367. Man Creates God
  368. Managing my Time on Earth
  369. Manhattan Odyssey
  370. Maslow’s Pyramid
  371. Maxiram Revisited
  372. Me and the Kenyan Mau-Mau
  373. Me and the Little Rock Nine
  374. Meeting Myself
  375. Memorable Achievements?
  376. Memories, Dreams, Reflections
  377. Merry Christmas, Messrs Deming
  378. Metaphors
  379. Mill Park
  380. Miraculous Recovery
  381. Mission
  382. Mission to Babylon
  383. Mister God, this is Anna
  384. Modest Ambitions
  385. More Jamaica
  386. Mother’s Day Visit
  387. Mr Lehane is Back
  388. Mr Sudell
  389. Museums and Women
  390. My Best Film – Ever
  391. My diary
  392. My Dream Project
  393. My Life as Art
  394. My true self
  395. Natural
  396. Neon or Candle-Light
  397. New Age Beliefs?
  398. New Morning
  399. News of the fight soon reached the Queen
  400. Night Thoughts
  401. Nightmare
  402. No Man is an Island
  403. Norfolk House 1
  404. Not Doing and Not Writing
  405. Notes on the Design of Form, part 1
  406. Not Knowing
  407. Not Knowing feels like a good place to be
  408. Not trying too hard
  409. Old Photos
  410. On a Dark and Stormy Night
  411. On Being an Animal
  412. On Christmas Eve
  413. On Coombe Hill
  414. On Fresh Air Alone
  415. On Happiness
  416. On Having No Ambition
  417. On Human Behaviour
  418. On Reading the Bible
  419. One Minute, Please!
  420. One Piece of Baggage
  421. One thought fills Immensity
  422. One’s Own Backyard
  423. Only the bicycle shed still stands
  424. Original version of diary software
  425. Other Places, Other Times
  426. Our Own Nest
  427. Our planned trip to Brussels
  428. Outreaching
  429. Outsider
  430. Owen Glendower
  431. Pandora’s Box
  432. Panspermia
  433. Parallel Paths
  434. Passion and Society
  435. Pastures New
  436. Pedestrian Ideas
  437. Peg, a minor character
  438. Perpetual Lab
  439. Perspectives and Remembrance
  440. Pheasant
  441. Piklu and the Old Man
  442. Pilgrimage to Cowes
  443. Pilgrimage to St Cuthbert’s
  444. Portrait of her Grandfather
  445. Portrait of Two Kings
  446. Powys and the Dead Frog
  447. Preferring the Old Telephones
  448. Pregnant Thoughts
  449. Preoccupied and Dreamy
  450. Presence: the Numinous in Everyday Life
  451. Privacy, Fearlessness
  452. Problem Solved
  453. Profane Influence
  454. Proof of Angels
  455. Prophetic Words from 1976
  456. Punishment or Happiness?
  457. Purpose
  458. Pygmalion and Galatea
  459. Quality Management Under the Sea
  460. Rainy day window
  461. Rambling in a Landscape
  462. Reader-Friendly
  463. Reading as a Mirror
  464. Reading the Church Times
  465. Reason to celebrate
  466. Rebuilding from within
  467. Recycling via the Salvation Army
  468. Released from Hospital
  469. Religion on Public Life
  470. Religion: Conquest of Fear?
  471. Remembrance
  472. Remembrance Sunday
  473. Responsibility
  474. Resuming Normality
  475. Retracing
  476. Reunion
  477. Revelations
  478. Revisit
  479. Ripening
  480. Risk Assessment
  481. Ritual & Reason
  482. Robert Louis Stevenson on Gas Lamps
  483. Root and Flower
  484. Rooted here
  485. Round and Round the Pampas Grass
  486. Rumours & Resignations
  487. Sacred places
  488. Sacrifice and Conscience
  489. Sail away
  490. Scintillating Scotoma
  491. Scraps for a Future History of Now
  492. Secret Strength
  493. Seeing a Pattern
  494. Seeing from a Height
  495. Self-Doubt
  496. Self-proclaiming
  497. Sent to Boarding School
  498. Sex Therapy
  499. Sex Therapy book
  500. Ship of Dreams
  501. Simone Weil on Evil
  502. Simone Weil on Politics and Justice
  503. Sin and the Church Times
  504. Sisyphus and the Rolling Stone pt 1
  505. Sisyphus 2
  506. Sisyphus 3
  507. Sisyphus  4
  508. Sittism or mainly Whateverism
  509. Sleeper Class
  510. Slug Life
  511. Smarts
  512. Some Dreams
  513. Some Rare Photos
  514. Something Meaningful
  515. Something of the Night
  516. Soul of an Animal
  517. Southward
  518. Spaces
  519. Spirit
  520. Spreading the Word
  521. Spring, or the Talk that Never Was
  522. Springtime
  523. Stairway to Heaven
  524. Steppenwolf
  525. Stepping Aside
  526. Stepping on Air
  527. Stepping Out
  528. Stories of Animal Sagacity
  529. Stories of Feline Sagacity
  530. Storms
  531. Strange Angels
  532. Straw Dogs
  533. Suffusion of Yellow
  534. Sunday Morning Stroll
  535. Sunday Morning, Late February
  536. Sunlit Ecstasy
  537. Take Nothing for Granted
  538. Taking the Bull by the Horns
  539. Talking the Walk
  540. Tall Stories
  541. Testament
  542. The Abyss
  543. The Angelic Gift
  544. The Anointing of Saul
  545. The Art of the Possible
  546. Theatre of life
  547. the beggar gives without my asking
  548. The Bible as a Sacred Object
  549. The Bitter Taste
  550. The Book of Margery Kempe
  551. The Boy Samuel
  552. The Buddha and the Corpse
  553. The Burden of Gold
  554. The Butterfly Phase
  555. The Call of Nature
  556. The Centaur
  557. The Chilterns
  558. The Constant Spring
  559. The Cosmic Ordering Service
  560. The Covenant
  561. The Creative Mind
  562. The Deck of Cards
  563. The Denial of Death
  564. The Exchange of Gifts
  565. The Faculty of Wonder
  566. The Folly of a Clown
  567. The Free Soul
  568. The Garden of Remembrance
  569. The Gentle Art of Wayfaring
  570. The Gift Horse
  571. The Gift of Literacy
  572. The Girl who Rocked the Government
  573. The God Interviews
  574. The Gordian Knot
  575. the Grand Scheme of Things
  576. The Handyman, by Brian Spaeth
  577. The Headmaster’s Wife
  578. The Head’s Sermon
  579. The Holy Ghost
  580. The Howrah Bridge Palmist
  581. The Human Condition
  582. The Idea of Perfection
  583. The Interconnectedness of All Things
  584. The Joker Chuang-Tzu
  585. The Late V S Naipaul
  586. The Legend of Honey
  587. The Long Journey to Now
  588. The Lord is my Shepherd
  589. the Lure of Literature
  590. The Madman’s Idea
  591. The Magic Fence
  592. The Mindless Maid
  593. The Moment
  594. The Moment, and The Rainbow
  595. The Muse is a Jealous Mistress
  596. The Mysterious Impulse
  597. The Nature of the I
  598. The New Pub
  599. Then and Now
  600. The old Telephones
  601. The Old Testament
  602. The Opium of the People
  603. The Organizing Power of words
  604. The Origins of Speech, according to Wittgenstein
  605. The Past Rewrites Itself
  606. The Pen is Mightier than the Sword
  607. The Persistence of Selfhood
  608. The Phoenix Trail
  609. The Placebo Effect
  610. The Pocket Diarist
  611. The Poetic
  612. The Pope and the Koran
  613. The Practice of Compassion
  614. The Present Moment
  615. The Price of Civilisation
  616. The Princess Flying Boat
  617. The Pull of Heredity
  618. The Realm of Infinite Possibility
  619. The Rules of the Tribes<
  620. The Sacred
  621. The Search for Meaning
  622. The Secret Agent
  623. The Secret Life of Strangers
  624. The Senses
  625. The Sex Life of Thomas Traherne
  626. The Slug, my Ancestor
  627. The Snowdrop Garden
  628. The Soloist: Art is More than Life
  629. The Soul just Feels
  630. The Springtime of Youth
  631. The Steps
  632. The Story of Tools
  633. The Tree of Life
  634. The Unfairness started with Adam and Eve
  635. The Unnamed Road
  636. The Ventilator Cowl
  637. The View from Nowhere
  638. The Visionary Eye
  639. The Wings of Fate
  640. The word Spiritual
  641. The Worm in the Apple
  642. The World
  643. The Wretched
  644. The Yet-to-be invented e-Writer
  645. Theatre of Life
  646. Then and Now
  647. Theology of the Body
  648. They that go down to the sea in ships
  649. Thirteen
  650. This Blessed Plot
  651. Thomas Traherne: His Outlook on Life
  652. Ticket to Paradise
  653. Time Consumes: Art Distils
  654. To Hayden, on Pets
  655. To Him that Knocketh
  656. To My Literary Agent
  657. To Paul, from Vincent
  658. To the Reader
  659. Tooting Broadway Dude
  660. Touched by the Printed Word
  661. Train Scribbler
  662. Travelling Light
  663. Travelling on Foot
  664. True Pride
  665. Tsundoku
  666. Two Vincents
  667. Unblocking
  668. Uncertainty
  669. Under the Umbrella Tree
  670. Unfair to Rats
  671. Unfettered
  672. Unimaginable
  673. University Dreams
  674. Unjudging
  675. Until the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse land at Heathrow
  676. Unto the Hills
  677. Upright Working Prince, pure lad
  678. Up through the floorboards
  679. User-Friendly
  680. Valley Creatures
  681. Valley Reverie
  682. Van Loon’s Lives, and Other Stories
  683. View from the Hill
  684. Views from Our House
  685. Vincent in Auvers
  686. Virtual Gardens
  687. Visit to Dalkey in 2014
  688. Waiting
  689. Wake Up!
  690. Walking Alone
  691. Walking on Air
  692. Walking, Thinking. Thanking
  693. Want and Need
  694. Wasp Honey
  695. Watercress and Angels
  696. Wayfaring Again
  697. We Create Worlds
  698. Wet Day
  699. What Books…?
  700. What Causes War?
  701. What Grandma Told Me…
  702. what is God?
  703. What is life?
  704. What is Philosophy?
  705. What is Soul?
  706. What is the greatest invention of all time?
  707. What looks after us?
  708. What makes me Uneasy
  709. What Makes us Stronger
  710. What the Alpine Club Had to Say
  711. What to Do
  712. When I Gave Trump a Chance
  713. When Love Conquers Fear
  714. When Memory Strikes
  715. When the Past Haunts the Night
  716. Where Norfolk House Stood
  717. Whereof one cannot speak
  718. While I Can … Because I Can
  719. While Unsleeping
  720. White and Black…
  721. Whithersoever
  722. Who is my Neighbour?
  723. Who Sleeps with Katz
  724. Who the …?
  725. Why Carry on Living
  726. Why did the R101 Crash?
  727. Why do Ladybirds have Spots?
  728. Why has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
  729. Why Pain?
  730. Why we do what we do
  731. Why write Memoirs
  732. Will and Intellect
  733. Wise
  734. Witchcraft?
  735. With a Pinch of Salt
  736. Wittgenstein
  737. Wittgenstein on Imagination
  738. Woodland Day Trip
  739. Woodside
  740. Writing Instrument
  741. Writing it Down
  742. Writing Style
  743. X: the Unknown
  744. Yellow
  745. Young, Heroic and Lethal
  746. Your diary
  747. Zorba the Greek